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davidrmoran
I myself see a big pullback coming in the next six months but I don’t know that I have ever been correct over 45 years. I will put a lot of money in if a 10% pullback comes. I expect you r being prudent depending on how old you are. The thing is, if you’re young, you might as well stick it out and not try to time. He said.
@BW, come on:
https://billmoyers.com/story/resurrecting-another-big-lie-myth-social-security-ponzi-scheme/
the 'pro' arg, pretty stupid imo, but for balance:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2017/04/04/sure-social-securitys-a-ponzi-scheme…
>> Most of what you cited discusses health insurance costs.
Uh, Reinhardt and others typically look to Kaiser and Milliman totals projections, no?
Insurance is large part, natch. Costs of healthcare (not insurance) are bending, I read. Is y…
that post I have referred to --- this is a common inequality counterargument, but nicely put. Takes into account not at all any extra burdening for birth, color, gender, all that stuff.
Jonathan
Oronoque [[? maybe Stratford Ct]? ]
May 29
The reas…
@Maurice, I would have thought you would be with Jonathan, who advocated quite as you do, or so I thought --- why mentioned it. Did you read?
But if you seriously think income inequality is BS and everything is meritocratic, there's nothing to dis…
>> I want to thank those of you who expressed your displeasure at our decision to engage with Wells Fargo, rather than to sell earlier. There were many of you, and we heard your voices. The voice of our customer is very important to us, and we…
Born in Phoenix and reared in the US, Mexico, and Belgium, Eduardo Porter has been on the staff of the New York Times since January 2004, covering economics, and joined the paper's editorial board in July 2007. He began his journalism career in 199…
thanks much for noting this
yeah, two months in the past
too late for my interest, as a former shareholder, for decades
too satisfied w DSEEX and putting increased donations to causes
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2018/05/29/trump-is-no-patriot-and-we-all-should-say-so/
Jennifer Rubin used to be a deeply conservative columnist, and is now just a particularly thoughtful one.
@Mark You are welcome; thanks much for reading.
Yeah, an unusual guy for sure. Actually in personality a bit of a cross (this does not come through so much in his writings) between Dustin Hoffman in Little Big Man (worth seeing) and Hoffman in Rain…
will be interesting to see where this goes:
https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2018/5/25/17394422/nfl-knee-kneeling-labor-law-kaepernick-free-speech-protest-owners
Yes, it's a good day to reflect on past service and to memorialize times of clearer meanings (my grandfather, father, brother, sister-in-law, all Navy or USMC, like many here, I am sure).
I've probably posted this before:
https://davidrmoran.wordp…
@Maurice, your post began as a response to Mark, but then got so incoherent I thought to let it slide by. But since you mention me, I would say only that the NFL has no idea what true patriotism is, it's all base-pandering and faux valentines to sal…
Why post this bogus Fox crap? Oh, right, patriotism.
Unworthy of this weekend.
Like the militarization of the opening of sports events. Come on.
No company would not love to hire more vets when they can do the work, or close enough.
This equ…
in any browser punch f5 a few times,
or use a different browser,
or launch a private / incognito session
go to fidelity.com
in the search field enter ponax
voila
Huh. When I go to Fido via private / incog browser session and also am not logged in, the result of search for PONAX says, as has been already reported:
This fund is now available NTF (No Transaction Fee) and offered load-waived through Fidelity
…
>> The writers you cite are ... just focused on bits and pieces.
So you have studied all of those articles and that's your conclusion: it's trees not forest?
I will send you all my money if you can invest at 8% without fail.
SS can, and will, in a manner of speaking.
Take it when you absolutely need it, sure, and delay if you have any choice about it at all.
As for odds-playing, do you have earlyish …
>> those who are able to take SS, take it as early as you can.
I suggest, those who are able to take SS, take it as late as you can afford to. It does take inflation into account --- huh? "Just statistics" is a wonderful. msf and others have …
that usage of early SS moneys may turn out to be lastingly smart (sending luck vibes your way)
I delayed SS amap myself, but maybe 20y ago (can it be?) we converted all (I think) trad iras to roths, paid the taxes, and in my retirement the last few…
Still more of the best-quality and most instructive wriggling I have ever experienced. But you will have to do your battles with the analysts and commentators. I am not as sharp as they, or as you. And sure, maybe they too are all mistaken and misgu…
Some more correlation, then.
Have not reexamined all of the sublinks since the analyses first appeared.
I bet they don't parse costs properly either.
Of course you know Price's comment:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/05/01/tru…
Was not rehashing the full and tortuous history, of course. Adopted secure 2-factor had to be stronger than a static PIN or password plus the token, and so the first factor became dynamic and unknowable, the result of pseudorandom-number (PRN) gener…
